Stephanie Kollmann

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

LOLOLOL

Sarah Brayne, Sarah Lageson
and Karen Levy have a nice paper on “surveillance deputies.” Ring wants to deputize your pet dog. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Anywho, would be nice if there were Latine and Caribbean cultural critics employed by the MSM...

Positively rolling every time they run the Lou Canellis spot

fuck this Ring commercial hiding fascism behind dogs

Atlantic article headlined "the evangelicals who see Trump's viciousness as a virtue"

Btw I think we need to develop a broader term for MAGAtarianist Christians, which do include a strain of Catholics and Mormons more obvious (and more welcomed by Protestants) than before

"evangelicals" has always been overinclusive re: white Christian nationalists but its underinclusion is starker

(I believe that she makes money from the books too but agree with the overarching point here)

Also since I'm mentioning this annoying article, 2 more things:

- Cape Town SA 🤔
- copyediting of the article itself

If anyone is selling you the opportunity to make money, *you* are how *they* make money and the 'secret' they have is convincing people like you to pay them.

There will be a lot of smoke & mirrors to make it look like you have agency, but the product is your gullibility.

To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books.

She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.

It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.

Dan’s piece is extremely good. I’m honored to be connected with the whistle crew, and it’s very fun to joke about my vertically integrated whistle packing party supply chain

Whistle Up 2: Rise of the Whistle Goblins | dansinker.com

Today the crew of weirdo printers that I call the whistle goblins passed A HALF MILLION whistles printed and shipped. I wrote about how we got there and how you can start printing whistles yourself. dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...

Excuse me.

Board of Governors, not Regents.

This was so ridic I looked it up and as expected even BoR's rules for FL's (IMO rights-infringing) law *specifically allow* what is described, provided BLSA's program is supported by equitably-diatributed student activities fees + private donations (I'm sure it is)
www.flbog.edu/wp-content/u...

FAMU BLSA BHM?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

this is an unbeLIEVable trifecta

University overcompliance hall of shame

Every lawyer involved in this -even just by letting people believe this is required and constitutional- should be ashamed of themselves

Like if the woman who organizes the funeral casseroles claims she is "just helping her neighbors" when she whistles and screams at agents, that is a perfectly fine first step toward political consciousness but neither the endpoint nor how the rest of us should understand the impact of her actions

So I understand why locals interpreting their resistance as material support rather than expressive demonstration (even though it is very obviously both) has been effective to recruit them

But I don't think it helps for us to keep pretending that fiction is reality

I think there is a class/race/culture component too (gendered but also this). I've never been to MSP but in the environment I was raised in, expressive opposition to authority was Simply Not Ever Done while organizing material support was common/important ...

There is a short jump between contempt for women and eugenics, and an even shorter one from eugenics to actual fascism

It's the same supremacy virus, incubated to infect ever-broader circles of relationship

This pulls a lot of info together in a comprehensible way and I appreciate that it includes not only Bari Weiss' latest CBS contributor list but her unaccredited university.

And Epstein being the primary funder of the book agent/guy who held Bad Ideas festivals pushing these men on society

Discovering that that you're experiencing a cultural moment that was selected for you by the people in those emails from a pile of stuff...

Natural Viking and Cougar Gold sound like Secret Service codenames for the guests of honor at a state dinner

One thing I find useless/annoying about robots is that the first thing I'd want a robot for is about the last thing I'd ever let it do

which is to process me through a morning routine like the Jetsons or Wallace and Gromit

The White House did a dishonest y-axis so I fixed their y-axis for them, you’re welcome White House
www.howtoreadthisch.art/lets-conside...

My kids & their friends say “that looks/sounds like AI” to mean shitty & fake/stupid. Really incredible to be inundated by “transformative AI“ discourse when the reality is so plainly the opposite.

"What we're seeing ... in hotels that have these types of contracts with the federal government is at night, when agents come back from their being out and about, beating people up, separating families and abducting people for fun all day, they drink heavily at the bar and have weapons on them."

I've loved this topic for a long time! A recent extreme is Bridgerton and the costume designer did interviews talking about specific departures from Regency fashion. And fashion historians did the same.

I think I first noticed it in Little House on the Prairie's 70s style + My Fair Lady (A Hepburn)

Rising Progressive Star Shakes Up Race for Los Angeles Mayor

Breaking News: Nithya Raman, a rising star among West Coast progressives and a Los Angeles City Council member, said she will run for mayor. Her announcement presents a significant challenge to the incumbent, Mayor Karen Bass.

People: 8-Month-Old Baby Goes Viral After Hairdresser Mom Gave Her a 'Fresh' Set of 22 Inch Extensions (Exclusive)

Baby with 22inch hair extensions

This photo is funnier than it has any business being

people.com/hairdresser-...

As a soccer mom, this story absolutely gutted me. Martin helped his mom save up money so she could take time off from work to go to the tournament with him. Then, he had to go home without her.